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Oklahoma State Dept. of Libraries, Oklahoma City. – 1995
This packet, which is intended for literacy program leaders throughout Oklahoma, contains the materials developed by the Literacy Office of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries for its 1995 literacy awareness campaign. The first third of the packet is a project guide that includes the following materials: overview of Oklahoma's first statewide…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Mass Media
Prison Literacy Project, Philadelphia, PA. – 1993
This handbook documents the Prison Literacy Project (PLP) in order to provide a model for other community groups to follow in developing their own literacy projects. The PLP worked to have prison residents learn to read or significantly raise their reading levels through an ongoing literacy tutoring program. All project participants were involved…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Correctional Education, Literacy Education
Samuelson, Judith A.; Faddis, Constance R. – 1986
This replication guide describes the Indiana solution to the adult illiteracy problem--the inception of the Indiana Adult Literacy Initiative and the formation of the Indiana Adult Literacy Coalition. These four strategies promoted by the Initiative for developing and implementing programs are cited: volunteerism, public-private sector…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Illiteracy
Anderson, Elizabeth; Miller, Christina – 1991
This handbook and a companion video are intended for use by adult education programs interested in implementing a court referral program for adult education. It highlights the Preparation for Employment Program (PEP), a special project of the Shoals Area Tri-County Adult Education Program that requires offenders lacking minimal basic skills to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Crime, Crime Prevention
Molek, Carol – 1988
This report and reference booklet is designed to provide adult education supervisors, instructors, and General Educational Development (GED) students and alumni with information to establish GED alumni associations as part of the adult basic education program. The final report details the GED Alumni Stretch and Reach project, which was proposed to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Alumni, Alumni Associations, Guides
Correctional Education Association. – 1988
This booklet contains standards developed with input from correctional educators and field tested in correctional education programs. The standards cover four major areas: (1) administration (philosophy and goals, written policy and procedure, organizational chart, budget, accreditation, annual meeting, student records, and program evaluation);…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Correctional Education, High School Equivalency Programs, Postsecondary Education
Guthrie, Chuck – 1983
This guide provides materials to help adult educators in organizing and developing volunteer literacy programs for the functionally illiterate adult. Introductory materials include a brief history of the Volunteer Adult Reading Program (VARP) and the philosophy and rationale of the program. A list of questions and answers follows that are intended…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Functional Literacy, Literacy Education
Minnesota Adult Literacy Campaign, St. Paul. – 1988
This blueprint is intended to give employers and organized labor an overview of the issues involved in workplace literacy. The guide is divided into six sections. Section 1 defines and introduces workplace literacy. Section 2 highlights some of the issues employers and organized labor are facing as a result of low literacy levels in the workplace.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Corporate Education
Butkus, Deborah L.; Willoughby, Mary, Ed. – 1995
Noting that family literacy is an intergenerational approach to education that addresses the needs of both the adult and child learner, this booklet presents aspects of family literacy programs and steps to help ensure the program's success. After discussing the need for family literacy, the book discusses the effectiveness of family literacy and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Definitions, Early Childhood Education, Family Literacy
Michael, Steve Olu – 1995
In an era of rising public criticism of education and decreasing resources, strategic planning can be a major tool for educational administrators who wish to respond to the increasing challenges their adult literacy programs face. Strategic planning can be defined as a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Educational Planning
Brandt, Rose – 1985
This manual is designed to serve as a step-by-step guide for managers of volunteer adult literacy sites. It discusses day-to-day responsibilities, suggests procedures, and provides forms and directions for their use. The guide is organized in four sections. Following information on the guide and background information on literacy education in…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit, London (England). – 1987
This discussion document provides detailed guidance on the resources needed to provide high quality learning opportunities for adults who want to improve basic communication skills. Background material is provided on the size of the literacy problem, the response of educators, the level of resources allocated for adult literacy and basic skills,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developed Nations, Educational Development
National Center on Adult Literacy, Philadelphia, PA. – 1994
These participant materials are from a videoconference that addressed the needs of adult literacy program administrators, instructors, and tutors beginning or continuing the technology implementation process. Section I contains the videoconference materials: agenda; videoconference evaluation form; biographical and program information; executive…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology
McKenzie, Marcie – 1987
This handbook is designed to help literacy coordinators, especially in New Mexico, develop and implement volunteer literacy programs. The seven chapters provide information on (1) organizing the program; (2) recruitment of volunteers and students; (3) training tutors; (4) methods of instruction; (5) recordkeeping; (6) recognition and placement for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Literacy Education
Suhanin, William R. – 1987
This guide for administrators provides a model for linking adult basic education (ABE) programs--ABE, general educational development (GED), and English as a second language (ESL)--with a broad range of human service agencies. The linkage model depicts a process that is divided into three phases. Three chapters discuss in detail these phases.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cooperative Programs, High School Equivalency Programs, Human Services